Graham Freeburn - Map your way to Better Testing - EuroSTAR 2012

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EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2012 presentation on using mind maps in testing

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Graham Freeburn, Sopra Group

W18 – Map your way to better testing!

@esconfs #esconfs

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introductions

http://uk.linkedin.com/grahamfreeburn

Twitter.com/freeburn_g

Graham Freeburn…..

Principal Testing Consultant

18+ years specialising in testing

30+ years in IT starting as a mainframe developer, then designer, project

manager, methods and release management consultant

experience in

test process improvement, mindmapping,

risk-based testing, exploratory testing, training &

mentoring, test automation, test strategy, and teaching people how to

enjoy Scottish Whisky!

regular speaker at EuroSTAR and other testing conferences.

This is my 17th EuroSTAR conference

chairman and co-founder of Scottish Testing Group

Twitter.com/SopraISG

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Agenda

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Objectives

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Why Change?

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More Out of Testing

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Visioning

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Example - Kickoff

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Example - Why Test?

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Example - SWOT Analysis

Europ Assistance - Test Improvement Service, 13/10/2010

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Example - Improvement Planning

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Focus on Skills

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Skills - TA

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Skills - TM

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What I kept - Questionnaire

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Testing Issues

Ranked Issues (with data variance)

Score

S-Variance

Priority

P-Variance

Objectives & Constraints - All Responses

3.68 3.63

5.32

3.403.06

1.92

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Reduce

Time to

Test

Reduce

Cost to

Test

Improve

Quality

More

Testing

Quick

Payback

Minimise

Change

Priority

Variance

"It is valid to trade time and/or cost against the level of residual risk?"(Ranking : 1 = Completely disagree, 6 = Completely Agree)

ALL Responses (Average Rank is 4.3)

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Completely

Disagree (1)

Mostly

Disagree (2)

Some

disagreement

(3)

Some

Agreement (4)

Mostly Agree

(5)

Completely

Agree (6)

No of

Responses

for a given

rank

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What I kept – Road Map

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Summary

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Testing to the Limit!